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A chemical that can kill bacteria without harming the human body is this

What is antibiotic

100

Chicken Pox, COV-19 and Influenza are caused by

Viruses

100
This is a virus which infects bacteria
What is bacteriophage
100

The process of a virus making copies of itself

What is replication?

100

The activity of this kind of virus remains dormant for a long time

What is a latent virus

200
These are bacteria that break down large chemicals in dead organisms into small chemicals
What are decomposers
200
Bacteria are known as this because the genetic material is not contained in a nucleus
What is prokaryotes
200

What are some ways scientists can classify or tell the differences between different viruses?

What is shape, DNA/RNA, surface proteins or none (naked)

200
Bacterial diseases are treated by this
What is antibiotic
200

Bacteria are surrounded by this rigid structure which protects the cell and the plasma membrane

What is cell wall

300

True or False. Bacteria outnumber human body cells 10 to 1.

What is True
300

One bacteria divides to form two identical bacteria cell in this process

What is binary fission

300
This is an organism that provides a source of energy for a virus or another organism
What is host
300

This results when some bacteria mutate and are able to survive in the presence of an antibiotic

What is antibiotic resistance

300

Bacteria are harmful because.......

What is cause disease and other harmful conditions, cause food to spoil

400
These whiplike structure helps a cell to move
What is flagellum
400
What are 3 main bacterial shapes?

Rods, Spiral and Spherical

400

This kind of virus immediately affects the host

What is active virus

400

One similarity and one difference between bacteria and viruses

1. They both can cause diseases

2. One is living, the other is nonliving

400

True or False. Bacteria have cell walls.

True. Bacteria have cell walls.

500

The genetic material contained in bacteria

What is DNA

500
Tiny structures called this produce proteins
What is ribosome
500

This is an organism that causes disease

What is a pathogen?

500
Bacteria are important because of this
What is food production, environmental recycling and cleanup, oxygen and food production etc
500
What happens in the last stage of the lytic cycle?

The cells rupture and viral copies are released.